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Orson Welles free-form documentary about fakery focusses on the notorious art forger Elmyr de Hory and Elmyrs biographer, Clifford Irving, who also wrote the celebrated fraudulent Howard Hughes autobiography, then touches on the reclusive Hughes and Welles own career (which started with a faked resume and a phony Martian invasion). On the way, Welles plays a few tricks of his own on the audience.
Famed director hosts and narrates this film dealing essentially with the question of what is real - and what is not. Trickery, he suggests, is found everywhere in life. On the island of Ibiza, Welles encounters author , who became famous for his fake biography of and , reputedly one of the 20th centurys great art forgers. Welles is his intriguing self as he discusses the role of so-called experts and ends the film with his own version of an illusion. Welles final film.
Orson Welles
Self - Narrator
Oja Kodar
Self - The Girl
François Reichenbach
Self - Special Participant
Elmyr de Hory
Self
Clifford Irving
Self
Laurence Harvey
Self
Edith Irving
Self
David Walsh
Self
Paul Stewart
Self - Special Participant
Richard Wilson
Self - Special Participant
Joseph Cotten
Self - Special Participant
Howard Hughes
Self
Richard Drewett
Self - Associate Producer
Alexander 'Sasha' Welles
Self
Gary Graver
Special Participant
Andrés Vicente Gómez
Special Participant
Julio Palinkas
Special Participant
Christian Odasso
Special Participant
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